Visual Artists
From 1983 to 1990 numerous artists exhibited at the Embassy Cultural House. These visual art exhibits were just an element of the programming held over the years including music concerts, film nights, performances, lectures, and social events. There was also a tabloid newspaper that promoted and reviewed the programming at the Embassy Cultural House. and events of interest to the cultural community.
This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the artists past and present of ECH community. Click here for the full index of artist who exhibited at the ECH between 1983-1990. This is a work in progress, so we welcome additional material. Please add a comment on our contact page.
This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the artists past and present of ECH community. Click here for the full index of artist who exhibited at the ECH between 1983-1990. This is a work in progress, so we welcome additional material. Please add a comment on our contact page.
Auditorium (detail) 2009-2015 oil on canvas - Collection of The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Andrews, Stephen: Stephen is a Toronto-based artist originally from Sarnia, Ontario. His work deals with memory, identity, technology, and their representations in various media including drawing, animation, and recently ceramics and painting. Andrews states that to represent both the message and the means by which it is delivered, he renders various ‘looks’ of mechanical reproduction by hand. He was also part of the group exhibition The Body and Society at the Embassy Cultural House showing from November 10th to December 9th, 1988.
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Benner, Ron: Ron is an internationally recognized, London, Ontario- based artist whose longstanding practice investigates the history and political economics of food cultures. Ron originally studied agriculture engineering at the University of Guelph. Finding himself ethically opposed to bioengineering, he began to travel and research the politics of food. Ron was one of the founders of the Embassy Cultural House.
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"Decompression", 2017
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Buchwaldt, Andreas: Andreas is a multimedia installation artist and freelance labour activist based in Toronto, currently completing his PhD in Visual Culture at The University of Western Ontario. He is a contributing editor to the Embassy Cultural House website.
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"Liberty Lost G20", 2010
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Condé, Carole and Beveridge, Karl: Carole and Karl live and work in Toronto. They have collaborated with various trade union and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 40 years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. Recently their work has been included in exhibitions: Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Holland; Toronto: Tributes and Tributaries, Art Gallery of Ontario; Public Exposures, jointly held at A Space Gallery, Trinity Square Video, YYZ Artists Outlet, Prefix ICA, and Urban Space, Toronto; and Bienal do Mercusol, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Carole and Karl have been active in several labour arts initiatives including the founding of the Mayworks Festival in Toronto and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. They received the Ontario Federation of Labour's Cultural award in 1997; an Honourary Doctorate from OCAD University in 2010, and NSCAD University in 2015; the Cesar Chavez Black Eagle Cultural Award from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canada, in 2011; the Prix de mérite artistique from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in 2013; and the Min Sook Lee Mayworks award for outstanding contribution to labour in 2014. Carole and Karl contributed a work to the Embassy Cultural House's first virtual exhibit Hiding in Plain Sight in October 2020.
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Day, Susan: Susan is a visual artist whose work is predominately constructed of ceramic. She has a long exhibiting history and her work has successfully straddled the worlds of contemporary craft and fine art. Susan's works have been included in various important national and international exhibits including the Body in Society and the Embassy Cultural House; Revisited at the DIA Art Foundation in New York City, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; the Banff Centre in Banff. Alberta; and La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City. Susan contributed a permanent installation in the public washroom of the Embassy Hotel in 1988, as part of the exhibition at The Embassy Cultural House, The Body in Society, with John Brown, Leon Golub, and Nancy Spero.
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De Kergommeaux, Duncan: Duncan is a Canadian painter who has maintained a rigorous studio practice since 1953 with over 60 solo exhibitions and several major museum retrospectives. His work is included in private, corporate, and public collections in Canada and abroad as the AGO and NGC with significant holdings in the Carleton University Art Gallery, The Ottawa Art Gallery, The London Regional Art Gallery, and the McIntosh Gallery at Western University. He had a solo exhibition Cow Paintings at the Embassy Cultural House from September 15 to October 13, 1983.
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Artist and art restorer, Stan Denniston, lives and works in Toronto and constantly struggles to find creative time outside the pressures of his art restoration business. Early in this term of pandemic, he was graced with the time and calm to initiate, and finish, the shooting of his first photographic project in 15 years. His work revolves around the themes of travel, memory and representation.
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Before and After the Electric Car, 2020
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Fernandes, Michael is many things: an interdisciplinary artist, an educator, an improvisational musician, a gifted ping pong player and an avid garlic farmer, among others. Born in Trinidad in 1944, he immigrated to Canada in the 1960’s, living in Montreal and Toronto before settling in Nova Scotia. Michael has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) since 1973. In describing his work Michael rejects many notions associated with a conventional understanding of art. For him there is no framing of what art is and is not, everyday actions and objects all have something to contribute. In turn, he considers his life an evolving artwork, something which can be shared with a public audience but does not have to be. These ideas are explored through painting, photography, sculpture, video, performance, and installation.
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Folch Serra, Mireya: Mireya was born in Tarragona, Spain as bombs were raining down on her mother's home in Barcelona when she was born during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The daughter and granddaughter of antifascist Spanish exiles she has lived in Toulouse, France; Mexico City and Canada. Since 1994 she has lived in London, Ontario and for many years she taught geography at Western University. One of her most cherished art-experiences was participating, with a group of London and Toronto artists, in the Drawn In, at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, an event organized by Serge Acaro, Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan. The participating artists gathered together to draw in the galleries of Islamic Art and Mesopotamian Art in protest against the US war on Iraq. The drawings were subsequently exhibited at A Space, Toronto and the Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario. Her work also has been presented in exhibitions at the Westland Gallery and Strand Fine Art, London, Ontario.
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"Natural Range of Canada Map", exhibited at the ECH in 1984. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Fones, Robert: Robert is a visual artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He works in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, painting, photo-installation and watercolour. This image is of one of his woodblock prints from Robert's exhibit at the ECH in 1984. This work was acquired from the ECH exhibit for the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Please visit his website for more information.
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Fatima Garzan, Beyond the Shadows, 2020
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Garzan, Fatima: Fatima is an Iranian-born Canadian artist, and she immigrated to Canada in 1992. Fatima had a BA in Economics and studied Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo where she received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in 2005. Garzan's art practice spans across painting, printmaking, and installations. Her experimentation with an array of materials from paper to plastic, lead her work to different and unexpected concepts. Her work evokes cultural traditions and the power of re-using and recycling materials in an increasingly congested world.
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New Landscape.
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Michelle Gay is an artist, designer and researcher. She is currently working on a PhD in the Environmental and Urban Change faculty at York University, focusing on Artists as Urban Theorists. She holds an MFA from NSCAD U and a Master of Information Science from University of Toronto. As an urban planning activist, she lobbied for 14+ years affordable live & work-spaces for research & creation; public spaces; and for urban design which is forward thinking and inclusive. She teaches in the Graduate Studies department at OCAD U. She is developing an artist-designed metadata system for a collaborative project called archiveThing (with Barbara Rauch) – to design an open access space for artists to share complex artworks.
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Wyn Geleynse's second-floor video installation, "More Than Meets the Eye," at the TrépanierBaer Gallery in Calgary. The installation ran from May 7 to June 7, 2020.
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Geleynse, Wyn: Wyn was a member of the Embassy Cultural House (ECH) board and also edited the ECH tabloid and curated the film program. He and his wife Lucretia and their daughter Mara were regulars at most ECH events. Wyn is a multimedia artist living and working in London, Ontario. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1947, Gelynse moved to Canada as a child and was raised in London, Ontario. Since 1969, he has exhibited extensively both in Canada and Europe. Considered one of Canada's pioneer film and video projection artists, Geleynse's career spans a period of nearly 40 years. His work raises questions about self and identity, commenting on the human condition with a subtle blend of irony and humanity. Interested in the notion of film projection as a metaphor for projecting one's thoughts and desires. In 2018, Wyn received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2018.
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"Shark Surprise" 30"x40" a/c 2018
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Gordon, Dave: Dave is an artist who lives and works in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Solo shows include the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Niagara Artist's Centre, St. Catharines, and the Art Gallery of Peterborough. He was a founding member of the Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario and the Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre in Kingston. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and in numerous private collections. He had four solo shows a CRAM Gallery in St. Catharines, Ontario, and participated in the International Print Exhibition at the Taller Cultural Centre in Santiago de Cuba in 2012. The exhibition subsequently travelled to Havana and four Canadian venues. He had a solo exhibit of recent paintings at the Embassy Cultural House from June 4 to July 2, 1983.
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"Good Year", oil/canvas, 1987, from "Canadian Jungle" series
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Girling, Oliver: Oliver was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario for many years. A member of the ChromaZone Collective from 1981-1986, also included Andy Fabo and collectively played a strong role in the development of contemporary Toronto painting. Oliver is also a writer and curator. In 1985, he curated the group exhibition Riot/Calm/Luxury at the Art Gallery of Harbourfront which included public site projects on the grounds of Harbourfront, Toronto. He was an early supporter of the Embassy Cultural House and had a solo exhibit in August 1983 a few months after the space opened. He has exhibited nationally & internationally and his paintings are in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa . He presently resides on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
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Interview (1989) was in Janice Gurney's solo show called Interview at the Embassy in 1989. Collection of The Museum, University of Toronto
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Gurney, Janice: Janice is a Canadian contemporary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was an active board member of the Embassy Cultural House and had a solo exhibit in the spring of 1989. She graduated University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree and later received a Master of Visual Studies degree from University of Toronto in 2007 with a collaborative degree in Book History and Print Culture. She went on to get a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University in 2012. Gurney's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Notable collections which have featured her art include: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Museum London. In her work, Gurney explores abstract concepts of human connection, meditation, and isolation using post-modernist art, collage, and visual meditation as methods of inspiration.
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"Reading in the Ruins", a Pop-up, paper, 2017
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Guttman, Freda: Freda is a native of Montreal and she has worked as a printmaker, photographer and laterally, as an installation artist. In more than forty years of active research and practice, her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and internationally. Guttman has over the years made her art practice and her political activism come together in a series of installations, in particular, one about the genocide of the Mayan people, Guatemala! The Road of War, and an installation concerning the global system of food production and distribution, The Global Menu, both of which travelled widely in Canada. In each venue she worked with solidarity, church and interested organizations to reach audiences other than art ones. She is involved as a foot soldier in the doings of many activist groups in Montreal such as Solidarity Across Borders. Freda participated in two Embassy Cultural House: International Women's Day Exhibition March 3 - March 21, 1984; and the Silent Auction: A Benefit Exhibition, May 11 - June 3, 1989.
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Hassan, Jamelie: Jamelie is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario. Since the 1970's, she has exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She is also active as a lecturer, writer and independent curator and has travelled and worked within Canada and internationally. In 2001 she received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition of her artistic achievement. Her activism, curatorial work and contributions to the artist-run centre movement in Canada were also mentioned by the jury in their statement. Jamelie was one of the founders of the Embassy Cultural House.
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Hassan, Ray: Ray is an artist who lives in London, Ontario. He had a solo exhibit Small Oil Paintings from the Series Opera Buffa at the Embassy Cultural House from November 12 - December 2, 1983. Please visit Ray's website for more information.
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Hay, Jean: Jean had a solo exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House from August 18 to September 12, 1984.
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"Okanagan Log Pile", Kelowna International Airport, 2019
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Helfand, Fern: Fern is a photo-based, artist and educator. While living in London from 1982 until 1998, she travelled extensively in Europe, USA and Asia. In 1984 Fern had a solo exhibition at the Embassy Cultural House. She currently resides in Kelowna, BC and has recently retired from her position as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan. For nearly forty years she has exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions across Canada and internationally. Her upcoming show (postponed until spring 2021 due to COVID-19) entitled Timber, Lumber, Wood, Home will be exhibited in Grand Forks, a town in the interior of British Columbia, which is conflicted between one of the community’s main economic foundations, the local mill and the environmental repercussions of climate change and the long term effects of logging. Please visit Fern's website for more updates.
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Restless Prowling From Night to Day Break, 2015, 11'x30' Oil on canvas
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Susanna Heller: is an American citizen who grew up in Montreal as a landed immigrant and since 1980 has lived in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Heller received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1977. The "metropolis" has been the primary source of inspiration for Susanna, often navigating her surroundings from a variety of perspectives, including bridges and skyscrapers. Susanna has exhibited her work in many international galleries and museums. A prolific painter working in various scales, her exhibitions often include smaller works on paper that are assembled to impactful affect within the architecture of the gallery space. Heller contributed a work to the Embassy Cultural House virtual exhibition Hiding in Plain Sight, October 2020.
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Hurlbut, Spring: Spring is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. She has been involved with questions of mortality and reverence, transcending the barrier between the living and the dead. Hurlbut has work in the collections of Departement de la Seine-Saint-Denis, France, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the National Gallery of Canada, and was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2018. She has exhibited widely, including at PS1, Long Island City, the Morgan Library, New York, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and C/O Berlin in Germany. Spring exhibited at the ECH in November 1987.
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Johnson, Rae (1953 - 2020): Rae had a solo exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House of works on paper, from February 3 - March 1, 1984. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Johnson studied at the New School of Art in Toronto from 1975 to 1976 and at the Ontario College of Art from 1977 to 1980. In 1981 she became a founding member of the ChromaZone gallery, an artist collective dedicated to reintroducing figurative painting to Toronto. In 1987 she moved to northern Ontario; the landscapes which she has since produced are reminiscent of the work of the Group of Seven, whose work she had seen at the National Gallery of Canada when she was still a student. You can read more about Rae on her Wikipedia page.
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"They will take away your gowns, sables and bathing suits", 2019, linocut hand-printed on kozo paper, 25 x 36 inches
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Johnson, Tricia: Tricia Johnson currently resides in London, Ontario, where she is an Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, teaching Foundations of Visual Arts and Print Media. Her artwork includes both traditional and experimental printmaking alongside her explorations into paper-based fiber art.
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Keeley, Shelagh: Shelagh lives and works in Toronto after living twenty-two years in New York City and Paris. Keeley’s recent projects have been presented by MoMA Library and Archives, New York (2015); Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2015) and Ryerson Image Center, Toronto (2013). Keeley has also been part of a large number of international group shows. In 2013 Keeley created a collaborative book project with refugee children entitled Desire to Join and published by Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013). Her work is included in public collections including MoMA, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Les Musées de la Ville de Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She had an exhibition and permanent installation in Room 31 of the Embassy Hotel from June 9 to July 4,1984. Shelagh Keeley received a Governor General in Visual and Media Arts in 2017. Please visit Shelagh website for more information.
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Lambert, Brian: Brian had a solo exhibition, Perceptions of Youth, at the Embassy Cultural House from July 7 to July 26, 1984. Involved in the Forest City Gallery, he presently works as chief installer of exhibitions and manages the collection at the McIntosh Gallery, Western University. He curated an exhibition Graphic Underground: London 1977 - 1990 on the punk rock music scene in London, Ontario in collaboration with the McIntosh Gallery and the Forest City Gallery in 2012. A publication, including texts by James Patten, Brian Lambert, Anna Hudson, Tom Carmichael, Mike Niederman and Ben Portis and images documenting posters from this period of music was published by the McIntosh in 2013.
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Patrick Mahon with Annemarie Hou; "Design for a Dissemunization Station", 2017
Installation with printed tent structures, medical equipment, sound; Installed: UNAIDS, Geneva
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Mahon, Patrick: Patrick is an artist, a writer/curator, and a Professor of Visual Arts at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. Currently, he is Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities at Western. Mahon’s artwork has been exhibited widely: in Canada at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Museum London, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; internationally in exhibitions in China, France, Norway, and Switzerland; and in numerous print biennales since the early 1990’s. Current and forthcoming solo and group exhibitions include: “Patrick Mahon: Messagers’ Forum,” Thames Art Gallery Chatham, On (2020-21); “Written on the Earth,” McIntosh Gallery, London, ON, curated by Helen Gregory, (forthcoming group exhibition, 2021); and “GardenShip and State,” Museum London, London, ON, co-curated by Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas, (forthcoming group exhibition, 2021, and ongoing community projects, beginning 2020). Patrick’s work is included in the exhibition, “In Place: Reflections from Manitoba,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, curated by Riva Symko (2020-2021).
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Mitchell, Doug: Doug is an artist from London, Ontario. He had an exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House of recent works from May 19 to June 6, 1984. His public art work, Sky Observation Platform commissioned by the McIntosh Gallery in 2000 is located on the campus grounds of Western University.
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Moodie, Kim: Kim is a London based artist who has exhibited across Canada, in the U.S.A and in Mexico. He has received senior Artist Grants from the Ontario Arts Council. His work has been collected by prominent public art galleries and corporations, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum London, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His work was included in The Tribute and Tributaries exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and at Museum London, Highlights from 150 Years of Art Making in London. His most recent solo exhibit was at the McIntosh Gallery, Spring, 2016, Any Dream Will Do. He had a solo exhibit Signs and Symbols at the Embassy Cultural House from May 12 to June 2, 1983. Please see Kim's bio on the Visual Arts Program at Western University, where Kim taught art.
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"A Different Mode of Sustenance", 2019, 4' x 6', Oil and acrylic on canvas
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Mossuto, Olivia: Olivia is an emerging artist, curator, and writer based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her practice engages painting, sculpture, and installation as a way to conceptualize affective and intimate encounters with beings, images, and objects. In recent endeavours, her process has become highly predicated on inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to making art that have both critical and progressive potentialities. Olivia is a contributing editor to the Embassy Cultural House website and participated in the Hiding in Plain Sight virtual exhibit.
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"rude sun", oil on canvas, 2020, 22 x 25 inches
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Neudorf, Kim: Kim Neudorf’s writing and paintings explore themes of resilience, healing, and survival, while seeking to undo easy legibility in order to honor the daily, more complicated modes of visibility and existence. Their work has appeared most recently at Support project space, London (ON); DNA Gallery, London (ON); Paul Petro, Toronto; Franz Kaka, Toronto; Forest City Gallery, London (ON); Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston; Evans Contemporary Gallery, Peterborough; and Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto. They live and maintain a writing and studio practice in London (ON). Website: kimneudorf.com
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"This Land", 1992 - Love Me Tender
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Niro, Shelley: Shelley Niro is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Brantford, Ontario. She is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, Turtle Clan. Her practice consists of a range of media, including photography, beadwork, film, installation, and painting. Her work challenges the expectations and stereotypes of Indigenous peoples, often using friends and family as subjects in order to celebrate and highlight the resiliency and individuality of the Indigenous women surrounding her. In October of 2020, she participated in the inaugural digital exhibition hosted by the Embassy Cultural House, Hiding in Plain Sight. For more information and details on her work, please visit her website: http://shelleyniro.ca
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Pas, Gerard: Gerard is an internationally recognized visual artist, photographer, object maker, painter, sculptor, performance and video artist. Gerard's art has been exhibited in many of the world's most interesting Contemporary, National or Public Museums and Galleries. His art has been discussed in many leading newspapers and art periodicals worldwide, and his work has been broadcast on all forms of electronic media -- film, television, video documentaries, and radio. Born in the Netherlands, he has lived in Amsterdam, New York City, he now lives and works in London, Canada. He had a solo exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House from December 3 - December 20, 1983. please visit his website for more information.
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“After the Revolution” , Andy Patton, From the private collection of Jamelie Hassan
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Patton, Andy: Andy is a painter who lives in Toronto with his partner, and artist Janice Gurney. He represented Canada in the Fifth Biennale of Sydney. In 2014, his text paintings were included in "The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art" exhibition in Xi’an, which later traveled to Beijing. His recent book, "Little Testament," was published in 2017 by Blue Medium Press. With the poets, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman, Patton was part of the poetry collaboration, Pain Not Bread; together they wrote Introduction to the Introduction to "Wang Wei" which was published by Brick Books in 2000. Patton is represented by Birch Contemporary. Andy was an active member of the Embassy Cultural House as his partner, Janice, was member of the board. He spent a significant amount of time in London teaching at Western University and had a solo exhibit at the ECH in April 1989.
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Salloum, Jayce: As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories (most everywhere), Salloum observes the world and creates/collects a subjective archive of images to make meaning from. Since arriving here - by no means of his own volition - he tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants he was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. After 21 years living and working elsewheres he planted himself on the unceded Xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh + Səíl̓wətaʔł territories. Salloum has lectured and published pervasively and exhibited somewhat peripatetically at the widest range of local and international venues possible and most improbable, from the smallest unnamed storefronts in his downtown eastside Vancouver neighbourhood to institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of Canada, Bienal De La Havana, Sharjah Biennial, Biennale of Sydney and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
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Smith, Mackenzie: Mackenzie, is an emerging local London artist who grew up in the east end and has joined the Embassy Cultural House team as a contributing editor to the website. They are a graduate from Beal Secondary School, and in their last year of the BFA program at Western University. Their art practice focuses around LGBTQ2A advocacy, gender equality, mental health, and poverty. Mackenzie's preferred mediums are: screen printing, digital illustration, and film.
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"Posada Remembered" c 1990
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Spence, Jean: Jean is a London artist whose works are centred on place, cross-cultural and archeological metaphors, and materials that are a part of her family history. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she has exhibited across Canada, in the USA and Mexico, including solo exhibitions of her work at Museum London and the Forest City Gallery. Her works are also in the collection of Museum London and the McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario. Jean was a member of the board of the ECH.
Posada Remembered is from a series based on tthe artist's time in Mexico while working along side her husband Michael Spence, the renown archeologist who worked for decades on archaelogical sites there. Jean did a number of drawings of artifacts which accompanied his research and publications. |
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Strachan, Beth: Beth is a London artist. She had a solo exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House of recent paintings from January 8-30, 1984.
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Van Halm, Renée: Renée was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada as a young child. She now lives and works in Vancouver after many years in Toronto, Montréal, and Berlin. Her undergraduate work was completed at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and she completed an MFA at Concordia University in Montréal. In addition to over 30 solo exhibitions, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions. She has recently had solo exhibitions at both the Equinox and Birch Contemporary galleries and currently preparing an exhibition of new work for the West Vancouver Museum in 2017. In 2012 the Burnaby Art Gallery mounted a 35 year survey exhibition of her works on paper. In addition, Van Halm has been involved with many related projects including the founding of Mercer Union, the artist-run centre in Toronto, in 1979. She taught for over a decade at York University before joining the faculty of Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1992 where she is now professor emerita. Her work is represented by Birch Contemporary in Toronto and the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver. She had a solo exhibit at the Embassy Cultural House, Small Works from March 24 - April 24, 1984. Please visit her website for more information.
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Zainub Verjee, detail of "Video Dress", magnetic videotape apparel, Zainub Verjee, 2000
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Verjee, Zainub: Born in Kenya and educated in the UK, Zainub arrived in Canada in the early 1970s and studied business administration and economics at Simon Fraser University. Her artworks have been shown at the Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland US, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México, D. F. (Mexico City, Mexico), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, India, and resides in private and public collections (Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada). Zainub Verjee is the laureate of 2020 Governor General's Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Canada. She is currently involved in the national campaign on Basic Income and is the co-author of the public letter to the Prime Minister of Canada on Basic Income Guarantee #artists4basicincome. Currently, she is the executive director of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in Toronto.
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Jade Williamson, "In Peril - Hawksbill Turtle", 2019
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Williamson, Jade: Jade is an artist from London, Ontario who is currently completing an Honours Specialization of Fine Arts at the University of Western. Her practice recently has been informed by an interest in wildlife and raising awareness for endangered species. Jade has also joined the Embassy Cultural House website team as a contributing editor.
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